There is no argument that free-market capitalism creates wealth and the highest possible level of prosperity. However, with this prosperity come the inexorably germinating seeds of its own destruction in the form of spoiled children. Each newer generation of children born to prosperous and well-to-do parents suffers from the personality defects peculiar to children overindulged and under-disciplined by parents. Parents take great pains to flaunt their prosperity by not only keeping one step ahead of The Joneses, but by endowing their children with nicer toys and extravagances than the Jones’s children. This leapfrogging a neighbor’s children’s comforts, the nicer car, matriculation to the more prestigious university without insisting on concomitant responsibility from the offspring programs them to believe deeply that all things should be given to them for free and that no one, from peasant to aristocrat should be held accountable for their own sustenance, and that the provision of largesse to the “according to their need” segment of the population should be a matter of state policy. This attitude naturally defaults to the political sphere of Marxist-socialist-communist wherein the forcible seizing of wealth from the “according to their ability…” segment of the population is effected by whatever means necessary, up to and including force, tyranny and mass – as in millions – murder, as demonstrated by all of the communist states that have formed since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Every single firebrand agitator and revolutionary, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Ngo Dinh Diem, Abbie Hoffman, Michael Lerner, William Ayres, Bernardine Dohrn, Fidel Castro, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and Baraq Obama emerged from lives of privilege and pampering to lives wholly dedicated to the destruction of wealth and murder of its possessors with the objective of securing power to themselves.

There is no means of correcting this inherent flaw in the collective human DNA. Almost no person who becomes a self-made millionaire or billionaire can be persuaded to not spoil their children and still further perpetuate this sociologically debilitating phenomenon. Over-eager to give their children all of the nice things they had missed in their own youth and oblivious to the ultimate effect it will have on them, nouveau riche moms and dads create the precise opposite of themselves in terms of personal initiative, Marxist monsters who would think nothing of turning against parents.

And, what of the masses of working people, the “proletarians,” so “downtrodden” and “exploited” by the capitalist ruling class? They’re worse off than ever after the Great and Glorious Revolution and completely forgotten by their new rulers, who could not have assumed absolute, despotic power without exploiting their ignorance, greed and gullibility.